saying

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistics: sentences & expressions
adage
asyndetic
asyndetically
asyndeton
backchannel
clause
coin
complex sentence
compound sentence
concessive clause
dicta
motto
phrase
proverbial
sentence
subsentence
tail
to coin a phraseidiom
Trumpism
war cry

Examples of dictum

dictum
He minimizes the difficulties of identifying the 'correct' monetary aggregate and ignores the instability of monetarist dicta on technical issues.
Certainly, subordinating local definitions to the dictum of the science of race required negotiation, and in some cases even training.
I suppose this simply reinforces the familiar dictum that 'we like what we know'.
We must learn to see in perspective before we can draw using its dicta, and even then our view is skewed by optical bias.
This dictum was to remain the evocation of the archaeological ideal of scientific common sense for a long time.
Therefore, the abiding dictum of all politics was that nothing must be done that might disturb this so-called balance of communities.
The force of these potentially radical principles was blunted by turning them into dicta.
And the well-known dictum 'each word has its own history' will have to be a guiding principle in this endeavour.
This dictum applies to bilingual speech as well.
Even there, the dictum that categorical treatment is discriminatory hinders the establishment of senior-specific organisations.
Similarly, it is preferable not to relate to the patient through formulaic dicta or bureaucratic procedures.
Those who exercise power effectively are well aware of this dictum.
Now, it appears that being assigned an end conflicts with the dictum that rational beings ought to live by their own choice.
His dictum, 'there are no accidents in art, only the fruits of long labour', complemented a training regimen based on continual practice and independent activity.
We use the dictum (see above) that our two-particle model will closely reproduce the results of the one-particle model (6.9) for these quantities.
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